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a. 1611[?].  Beaum. & Fl., Four Plays in One, Wks. 1912, X. 296. Behold a princess … playing here the slave, To keep her husbands greatness unabated.

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1676.  Hobbes, Iliad, XIX. 295. I think yet Another time for Feast had better been;… whilst yet unabated is my Spleen.

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1781.  Gibbon, Decl. & F., xxxi. (1787), III. 194. The king of the Goths … still advanced with unabated vigour.

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1796.  Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, III. 393. Mrs. Arlbery felt provoked to find his power thus unabated.

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1840.  R. H. Dana, Bef. Mast, xxv. For three days and three nights the gale continued with unabated fury.

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1857.  Buckle, Civiliz., I. vii. 456. For nearly fifty years the movement has continued with unabated speed.

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  Hence Unabatedly adv.

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1828.  Carlyle, Misc. (1857), I. 132. They chaunting unabatedly her extreme deficiency in personal charms.

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1898.  Westm. Gaz., 27 July, 5/1. The war would be carried on unabatedly until something more tangible in the way of terms was proposed.

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